Sonchus garden - Sonchus oleraceus L.

Cirsium VEGETABLE (sow thistle garden) - Sonchus Gorodnii Sonchus oleraceus L.
aster family - Asteraceae , or Slozhnotsvety

Sonchus garden - a herbaceous annual plant 30-100 cm tall. Stalk straight, hollow. Plant of injury identifies milky white sap. The leaves are alternate, dull, bare, melkovyimchato-dentate, the teeth are elongated into soft 'spines, the lower leaflets peristorozdelnye, the winged shaft expands into arrow-based, which envelops the stem. Baskets at the top of the stem and its branches are collected in umbellate shields; flowers in them bisexual, ligulate, yellow.
Flowers in June - September.
growing on wet meadows, like a weed in fields and gardens, along the roads. Distributed in the Carpathians, and in the forest-steppe. Characteristic of Belarus and Russia mid-latitudes.
gather the whole plant during flowering. The plant contains tannins, rubber.
Apply it for colds , pains in the bladder , in particular with stones , with selezenochnike , hemoptysis , against worms .
use in the form of tea. In 1 cup boiling water 1 tablespoon of taking grass weed and insist 10 minutes. Applied as follows: 1 cup must drink on an empty stomach and 1 in the evening, swallows. When hemorrhoids in 1 liter of water boil for 2-5 minutes 1 rounded handful of plants and broth are added to the sit-bath (cold bath for 15-20 minutes, take three times a week). At the wounds from blows is applied crushed fresh sheets (hemostatic effect).

Elecampane - Inula helenium L.
Elecampane - Inula helenium L.

Elecampane - Oman Vysokyi (devyasil) Inula helenium L.
Family Asteraceae - Asteraceae , or Slozhnotsvety - Compositae
Elecampane - a perennial herb 100-150 cm, sometimes up to 250 cm tall. Rhizome thick, fleshy, internally whitish with brown spots, its bitter taste (hot), a rather pleasant smell, strong. Stalk straight, branched above. Leaflets - radical, large, woolly top and bottom - serovoylochnye, unequally, oblong-elliptic, acute, narrowed to the stalk. Stem - regular, sertsevidno-ovate, amplexicaul. Baskets are rather large, up to 8 cm in diameter, isolated and in clusters, flowers yellow.
Blossoms in July - September.
growing is almost absent-mindedly throughout Ukraine, Russia and Belarus. Cultivated in the gardens, in the wild growing on wet bushes, on the high banks of rivers, especially on soils of the chernozem zone, with the ditches, the edges of meadows, sometimes in forest clearings.
gather rhizome with roots in October, and dried in the shade. Apply as expectorant , diaphoretic and diuretic tool. Reducing motor and secretory action of the intestines, facilitates digestion and metabolism . Also operates anthelmintic . Effect of roots elecampane High expectorant , bactericidal , they assist digestion (sesquiterpene gelenin acts like eudesmolu eucalyptus oil).
Use in the form of tea. For 1 cup of water take 1 teaspoon of minced root (more than 1 teaspoon not take, because it may cause vomiting). Sweetened with honey or sugar liquor consumed in the absence of appetite, sluggish digestion , the bad and frequent belching , frequent swelling intestines. Also, when colic , gastritis , gastroenterite , diarrhea non-infectious origin and selezenochnika . When scanty menstruation , breast disease - together (tie) with the root Althea , - inflammation of the lungs, emphysema , TB lung, bronchitis , tracheitis , to reduce sputum production, as the most effective expectorant - every 2 hours for 1 full tablespoon. You can also use as a powder from the crushed roots of Elecampane, mixed with honey, 5 teaspoons a day.
Decoction of fresh crushed rhizomes and roots of Elecampane (2 tablespoons in a pint of port wine cook for 10 minutes, drink 50 grams twice daily after meals) is recommended if intestinal catarrh and a lack of stomach acidity, as in pulmonary tuberculosis (M. Nosal ). Water decoction of the roots elecampane in association with grass ostudnika naked helps with acute and chronic calculous pyelonephritis.
During a severe cold, when influenza , when the patient is breathing heavily and had a runny nose, coughing, after grinding with turpentine cans and give the drink instead of tea decoction prepared from the rhizomes and roots (tie) elecampane high and angelica medical (and 1 tablespoon each per 1 liter of cold water, boiled for 10 minutes).
When anemia , with pale weakness ( chlorosis ), give to drink 2 cups a day (spoons) broth mixture of roots and rhizomes Elecampane, Grass Gentian and Yarrow - take 1 teaspoonful every half-liter of water and boil 10 minutes.
When scabies , as recommended by M. Nosal, a handful of chopped roots and rhizomes Elecampane boil 15 minutes in 4 - 5 spoons of unsalted pork lard, add 2 tablespoons of pure birch tar, the same amount of sulfur powder . This ointment rubbed on the body for several days at night, washing it in the morning a strong broth (50 g per 1 liter of water) Elecampane. Every day, change clothes, bedding and garments, and thus get rid of even the most neglected skin disease (underwear must boil, and woolen things to iron a hot iron to kill all the scabies mites).
Baths of strong decoction of the root Elecampane take with itchy eruptions, pus - with scrofula - impetigo, herpes, neurodermatitis. Poultices of crushed boiled root is applied (for a few minutes, so as not to cause burns) for diseases of the joints. Powdered root thrown onto the hot charcoal to smoke kill flies, mosquitoes, fleas.

Solidago ordinary - Solidago virgaurea L.
Solidago ordinary - Solidago virgaurea L.

Solidago ORDINARY (golden rod) - (zolotushnik) Solidago virgaurea L.
Family Asteraceae - Asteraceae .
Solidago ordinary - a perennial herb with stout erect stem 50-100 cm tall, sometimes painted in a reddish-violet color. Radical and lower leaves are oblong-elliptic, toothed, stem leaves - lanceolate, with full margins. Flowers in small baskets, yellow, with shportsem, hang under the leaves of 2-3 on slender peduncles. In verrucose struchkovidnyh green boxes at the slightest touch of leaf roll in the ring with force and seeds are scattered to the sides. Flowering from July to September. In the grass contains a volatile oil, traces of saponins , kvertsitrin , tanning substances, alkaline substances, bitterness, nicotinic acid.
It grows in pine and spruce forests, on hillsides, in the mossy grass and pine forests.
Collected from drug to the tops of flowering plants. Apply grass in the form of tea. Drink with diarrhea , diseases of the bladder . Powdered dry inflorescences mixed with cream and ointment are used for various skin diseases, especially with cutaneous tuberculosis .
Powder from the flowers to sleep scars.
Infusion Herbs are used as a solvent for stones in the kidneys and bladder, with high content of protein in the urine, as a diuretic in edema and edema, as well as rheumatism , gout , bronchial asthma , tuberculosis light, biliary disease. Herbal broth used to rinse with angina , loosening of gums, for lotions with festering wounds and fractures.
Use infusion 1 tbsp. tablespoons herbs in a glass of boiled water, drink for 1 / 2 cup 3 times daily before meals for 2 weeks. You can also 6 teaspoons herbs pour 2 cups of cold boiled water, to insist for 8 hours and drink warm sips throughout the day.
Golden rod is included in the composition of medicines for the treatment of vein diseases .